Ok I may be out of touch - no, am certainly out of touch - but I was under the impression that a wedding invitation was supposed to be reciprocated by a wedding gift or cash that was supposed to be more or less equal to the price of your seat. Thus making a wedding as close to revenue neutral (and if your folks paid for it, so much the better). I get that not all guests can afford / will do and that weddings are probably proportionally more expensive than they used to be (esp. With young couples being more likely to have massive debt to pay off). I've been to one stag and doe and it was for a good buddy who I hadn't seen in a while. I was happy to buy beers and raffle tickets and there were a lot of old friends I was glad to see. No DJ or anything like that, it was a low key thing, and as many of us weren't going to the wedding it was a great way to see each other and celebrate anyways. But then, when my (female) cousin got married last year, the "bachelor party" was in the same hall as the reception and the bride's rich uncle paid for the venue (i think they also paid for the bachelorette party) and the raffle included a plasma tv as a prize among other things. I was in school at the time, so I didn't go (and for that matter, my dad and brother went but nobody decided to ask if I wanted to go). Probably for the best.
Prizes are never purchased with cash. They are almost always donations with somebody with connections, or LOTS of money. I've seen some crazy prizes, the last one I worked had a wheelbarrow brimming with 40 oz. booze bottles as ONE PRIZE.
I swear to god spring is going to start or one of these kids are going to die. Why would some one run across a room just to head but their brother? Then of course he started crying and freaking out when the victim of the head but kicked his ass.
Kids do shit. Last time we went to my wife's home town, we stopped by her best friend's house and as soon as my daughter sat down to play with one of her twin boys' MANY toys, the evil of the two stormed right up behind her and axe-kicked her over the shoulder blade. it HURT her, not to mention scared the living piss out of her getting mugged like that. It was real fucking Kumite-shit. Complete evil straight out of left field. It's just BOYS. We are the 49% of the population the invented scorching ants with magnifying glasses.
I want a permanent TiB parental thread where we can relate with this shit like the TiBettes and exchange experiences and horror stories involving projectile vomit. Would anyone else be in favour?
Yes. Start it now. I want to be fully prepared for what I'm about to sign up for (haven't started trying so it's never too late to duck out).
In that case, the first thing you need to know is that every child and every parental experience is to each their own, and NEVER compare or compete yours with anyone else's
Just got a save the date for my buddy's wedding. He told me to watch out, I was confused. That is, until it go here, and it was full of glitter. It looks like a stripper exploded in here.
We could just call it the "Birth Control Thread". To the uninformed, it may appear as though the topics at hand would be along the lines of, "Techniques for fishing out your old nuva ring" but once they open the thread, its really about the endless nightmares of parenting.
Well... I hope there will be lots of good things about it as well, because there are LOTS of good things about it. But horror stories are fun too.
That would be a correct assumption. Sure, I could look it up, but it's Saturday and fuck that. I'm sure it's a pop culture reference. I'm woefully undercultured.
I believe she was the one who bragged about beating the piss out of her kid(s), or something of the like.
I know who Wickedbitch is - I don't know what the white courtesy phone is. It's not really all that important in the grand scheme of things.
What is this? Make happyfunball feel old week? Isn't it enough I just took my 17-year-old on a tour of my college alma mater and all I could say the whole time was "I remember when..."? And think about how all the guys would call the freshman girls Fresh Meat? I am not ready for this. I wanted to add that our tour group was a total dud. When we were looking at the dorm rooms some guy must not have realized a tour was happening because he walked out of the shower with a towel around his waist. I joked, "Where's my camera when I need it?" They all looked at me like I was a perv. Come on, he was over 18. Don't guys like to be objectified? I also may have embarrassed my daughter, and possibly my husband.
Wha-? You defile the memory of Leslie Nielsen with your dismissal. Airplane! is the most important thing ever. Woman.
So one of my friends/acquaintances is now engaged to her abusive cheating ex. People sure are dumb, eh?
Well everyone knows that even the most abusive and cheatingest of assholes turn into gentlemen once they get married. And as a last ditch effort if for some reason THAT doesn't do the trick, she can definitely get him to turn around by lying about taking birth control and getting herself knocked up. It's bulletproof.